HARTFORD

News-Times, The (Danbury, CT)

Published 1:00 am, Saturday, April 8, 2006

A legislative committee is seeking everything from e-mails to names of people who attended a December fundraiser for Gov. M. Jodi Rell as part of a series of investigative hearings to be held next month.

More than 100 people attended the fundraiser and were asked to contribute up to $2,500 to the governor's campaign. All those checks, valued at more than $60,000, were eventually returned, according to the campaign.

The committee released on Friday the list of people it is seeking documents from. Some of those people, as well as others, may be called as witnesses to the investigative hearings, scheduled for May 10-17.

"No one is excluded," said Rep.
Christopher Caruso
, D-Bridgeport, the committee co-chairman. "But at this point, we haven't determined which individuals we want before the committee."